Today’s presidential race unfortunately reminds me of the bitter 1991 gubernatorial runoff in Louisiana, a state long associated with colorful politics. Trump gives you plenty of material himself, and where Clinton’s speech yesterday was the strongest, it was focused on Trump and what he says, basic aim of sending the message to Republican and lean-Republican voters that “this isn’t who you are” or “you’re better than this”.
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Madame Secretary, though, and you all have done remarkable work in the fight against HIV and AIDS, but you are not suggesting and nobody related you with the foundation is suggesting that continued progress will stop if you transfer those assets over time, understood it would take awhile, over to the Gates Foundation or some other foundation that would continue your good work.
“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”, Clinton said. “His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly risky”.
Trump’s “rhetorical shift on immigration is NOT troubling”, said William Johnson, a Los Angeles-based attorney and white nationalist who was briefly a Trump delegate.
But Trump was saddled with another inflammatory revelation Friday when court papers surfaced showing that an ex-wife of Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school almost a decade ago.
William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, said Trump risks losing his group’s endorsement if he deviated too far from his stringent law and order stance on illegal immigration. “I think Congress is in recess”. In the 1970s, Trump and his company were sued for alleged discrimination. “You can’t trust her”, said Beth Gramling, who voted for both George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
There was little subtlety in Clinton’s speech. What’s more, he’s also trying to show interest in the lives of African-Americans and Hispanics.
Trump, however, has been embraced by the fringe groups, in part because he tapped Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, as the CEO of his campaign.
In comments broadcast on Fox News on Wednesday night, Trump said he would be willing to work with immigrants who have abided by USA laws while living in the country, backing away from his insistence during the primaries that he would try to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants. Yet she didn’t help herself by later misquoting Comey in a televised interview as having completely exonerated her. “I made policy decisions to keep Americans safe”.
Clinton devoted large portions of her speech to making overtures to Republicans, calling this election “a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump”.
“He’s saying, let’s fix this problem, let’s fix it and then we’ll wrestle with the people who have been here a long time”, the Trump supporter said Thursday during an interview on Fox News.
Throughout her speech, she praised Republicans, like former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, for standing up to hate speech.
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Mrs Clinton has a lead in both national and swing-state polls, but Mr Trump is now in the middle of attempting – sometimes awkwardly – to smooth out some of his sharper rhetoric and back away from controversial stances.
